I carefully tore the page from the fold of the magazine and used a ruler and an exacto knife to straighten the edge. With four brass thumb tacks, one in each corner, I pinned the image onto my corkboard. The headline, typed in a classic condensed font, consisted of three little words: Be the light. These are the very words that inspired the birth of this business all those many years ago. To this ...

The fact is we all have bills to pay. At some point, most of us have made the choice to take on a job we don’t necessarily want for the reason of paying those bills. Sadly, we end up paying for them with our life. We sacrifice our vitality for the sake of eking out “a living”. We banish our dreams from our consciousness because it’s too painful to keep them alive. Meanwhile, we try to mollify our ...

On my former island home, I met a gentleman with whom I was going to collaborate on a community development project at the time. During our initial conversation, our rapport was easeful and we were aligned on many of the issues, but then he said to me, “This island has too many trees.” Cue the awkward silence. I’m sure he could see my entire body stiffen. I let the silence grow between us to indic...

Right off the top, I want to be clear. In general, I do not use the word “work” derogatorily. My view is that there is no distinction between the concepts of “work” and “inspired work”. When what we do in the world is aligned with who we are within, then I perceive them to be the same. However, for the sake of making my point in this post, I will use the individual word “work” here in the disparag...

Last month, it was my turn to experience the coronavirus for the first time (and hopefully the last). It was brutal. I understand the experience is different for each person, however, for myself, I had every one of the potential symptoms. Every single one. The worst, though, was the headache pain. It was like a vice grip being slowly tightened around the circumference of my head. The pressure was ...

“I miss that part of myself,” I said to my then business client. My words hung awkwardly in the air, as if I had spoken a truth I wasn’t supposed to say. I’m sure my client wasn’t interested in hearing what I didn’t like about my work, but to me, my admission was like a siren piercing the silence of my own apathy. I couldn’t unhear my own words. It left me wondering what others parts of myself I w...

Two decades ago, I would have been hard-pressed to define inspiration, let alone have the embodied experience of it in my work. It is a concept that is difficult to express fully using words as it is more so a felt experience than an intellectual one. Through teaching the subject of inspired work, I have continued to study inspiration to further integrate it into my own being and to better underst...

“I just realized I’ve never felt inspired in my life,” he said softly. The room went quiet in respect for his vulnerability. It was early days in the Vision Program when I used to teach in a classroom setting. As a group, we were exploring the question what does feeling inspired feel like? There’s something fascinating about inspiration – even just talking about it can evoke the sensation of it in...

When I was seeking clarity about the work that would be meaningful to me, I read every book about the topic I could get my hands on. It was through the lens of these authors that I began to reshape my entire concept of work. Beforehand, I perceived work as something we do, now I see work as an expression of who we are. Even though we are entering into a new paradigm of work, these classic reads al...

“Sometimes, I wonder how you do it,” a friend said to me recently. Over the last 13 years, he has been witness to both the highs and lows I have experienced in bringing my inspired work to the world. “It’s easy,” I said, “I’m living a life true to myself.”

Before he and I met, what seems like another lifetime now, I was living a lie. It was the worst. Some days I wished I were dead. Many days I f...

…and why I almost didn’t create it.

Let me say right off the top that I acknowledge that the creation to which I am referring here is no Kadupul flower. However, its existence is even more valuable to me. It is a unique and authentic expression of who I am.

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For as long as I can remember, the seed idea for this project had been within me, however, it was the co...